Before the election Lincoln served as a captain in the Illinois Militia during the Black Hawk War.

Before the 2002 election FC Bayern General Manager Uli Hoeneß expressed his support for Stoiber and the CSU.

Before election to the papacy, Pacelli served as secretary of the Department of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs, papal nuncio to Germany ( 1917 – 1929 ), and Cardinal Secretary of State, in which capacity he worked to conclude treaties with European and Latin American nations, most notably the Reichskonkordat with Nazi Germany.

Before his election as Pope, he served as Bishop of Caere, which made his election controversial, because, at this stage of history, a bishop was expected never to leave office to move to another see.

Before his election to the papacy, he had previously served as Bishop of Sutri.

Before his papal election, Cardinal della Rovere was renowned for his unworldliness and had even written learned treatises entitled On the Blood of Christ and On the Power of God.

Before the election, he founded the Young Nationalists as his party's youth wing and served as its first president.

Before Reagan's election, supply side policy was considered unconventional by the moderate wing of the Republican Party.

Before the 2008 presidential election he said, " On social issues, I lean Libertarian, minus the crazy stuff ," but said in December 2011 that if he were president he would do whatever Bill Clinton advised him to do because that " would lead to policies that are a sensible middle ground.

Before Harding's election, the nation had been adrift ; President Woodrow Wilson had been ill by a debilitating stroke for eighteen months and before that Wilson had been in Europe for several months attempting to negotiate a peace settlement after World War I.

Before John XXII's election a contest had begun for the imperial crown between Louis IV of Bavaria and his opponent, Frederick I of Austria.

Before his royal election, he was by inheritance Duke of Swabia ( 1147 – 1152, as Frederick III ).

Before this election, the United States had no chief executive.

Before the election, the War Democrats joined the Republicans to form the National Union Party.

Before the 1923 election, he resolved his dispute with Asquith, allowing the Liberals to run a united ticket against Stanley Baldwin's policy of tariffs ( although there was speculation that Baldwin had adopted such a policy in order to forestall Lloyd George from doing so ).

Before Clay's election as Speaker of the House, the position had been that of a rule enforcer and mediator.

Before the 1966 election, the widow ’ s pension was tripled and redundancy payments for laid-off workers were introduced.

Before and shortly after this election, the HZDS supported the creation of a looser federation — a confederation — between the two republics.

Before the 2002 election, former Moderate Party MP Sten Andersson defected to SD, citing that the party had gotten rid of its extreme right elements.

Before the election of 2004, Karzai led the country after being chosen by delegates of the Bonn Conference in December 2001 to head an interim government after the removal of the Taliban Emirate.

Before 2010, commissioners were elected on a nonpartisan basis, but Sullivan County's commission election became a partisan election in 2010 after the county Republican Party decided to conduct a primary election for commission seats.

Before the 2010 United Kingdom general election it was divided into three constituencies contained wholly within the borough-Brent South, Brent East and Brent North.

* Gentry, Kenneth L., Jr. ( 1998 ) Before Jerusalem Fell: Dating the Book of Revelation, Powder Springs, Georgia: American Vision, ISBN 0-915815-43-5.

Before 1998, the United Kingdom profile contained a sentence that asserted the UK had gained independence on 1 January 1801.

Before then it was the capital of Elbląg Voivodeship ( 1975 – 1998 ) and a county seat in Gdańsk Voivodeship ( 1945 – 1975 ).

* Sherman, Robert B. and Sherman, Richard M. ( 1998 ) " Walt's Time: From Before to Beyond " ISBN 0-9646059-3-7

Before 1998, each county also had municipal or justice courts that heard some of the cases.

Before Doral was incorporated, the second ( 1996 – 1998 ) Pan American World Airways had its headquarters in Doral.

Before the city was officially incorporated in 1998, the area was commonly known as " Three Way " for a number of years because of the split by U. S. Route 45 along its north-south route.

Before focusing work on their next album, the group recorded a version of " Poor Little Rich Girl " for the Twentieth-Century Blues: The Songs of Noel Coward in 1998.

Before moving to Aker Stadion in the beginning of the 1998 season, Molde had been playing their home games at Molde Idrettspark ( at the time called Molde stadion, and Gamle Molde stadion since 1998 ), a municipal-owned multi-use venue, since 1955.

Before 1998, it was known as AXAF, the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility.

She received critical acclaim for her performances in Unhook the Stars ( 1996 ), Slums of Beverly Hills ( 1998 ), Before the Devil Knows You're Dead ( 2007 ) and received Academy Award nominations for her performances in In the Bedroom ( 2001 ) and The Wrestler ( 2008 ).

Before MirrorMask, McKean directed a number of television intros and music videos as well as several short films, such as The Week Before ( 1998 ) and N ( 2002 ), which are included in the compilation DVD of McKean's work Keanoshow from Allen Spiegel Fine Arts.

Before Neutral Milk Hotel began their indefinite hiatus, Mangum played live at a house show on December 5, 1998 in Athens on Chris Bilheimer's birthday.

Before her tenure at Sarah Lawrence, Dr. Lawrence served as the dean of the School of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine from 1998 to 2007, and as a member and subsequent chair of the English faculty at the University of Utah from 1978 to 1997.

It is heard in his operas Insect Life ( 1985-87 ), The Book of Secrets ( 1998 ), and Before We Are All Drowned ( 1995 / 99 ), in the Symphonies no.

Before and after its cancellation, the shows in the block were rerun both on Disney Channel ( during the mid-to-late 1990s ) and on Toon Disney ( all of them between the channel's launch in 1998 and 2004, with some remaining until as late as 2008 ).

The quartet also performed on the 1998 Dave Matthews Band album Before These Crowded Streets on the tracks Halloween and The Stone.

Before 1998, all political issues, even when only concerning parts of the United Kingdom, were decided by the British parliament at Westminster.

Before the end of the 1998 season, Guerrero agreed to a $ 28 million deal.

Before the 2008 election, FUNCINPEC and the Cambodian People's Party formed a coalition government, although FUNCINPEC's significance has decreased steadily since 1998, when it had an equal relationship with the CPP in the coalition.

Away Team Pack ( release: May, 1998 ) This pack contains two cards featuring The Traveler ( from the episode " Where No One Has Gone Before " and The Emissary ( Benjamin Sisko's role in the Bajoran religion ).

Before the airlines could fully merge, the holding company and its two independently operated airlines, Pan Am and Carnival, filed for bankruptcy protection and ceased scheduled flight operations in February 1998.